Police searching for the body of Kate Prout are combing an area of about 250 square metres, it was revealed on Tuesday. Kate Prout’s husband, Adrian, admitted last week that he murdered his wife and was taken from his prison cell to their former home to point out the spot where he buried her body …

Centrica, the British Gas parent, signed a new ten-year agreement to buy £13bn worth of gas from Statoil and pay £1bn for oil and gas assets in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The two companies will also jointly explore for gas in the North Sea. The deal, coming less than a week after …

David Cameron has backed calls for GPs to be stripped of their responsibility for signing people off work for long-term sickness. The Prime Minister said the move would help ensure that those who could return to work did so and those who could not received the support they needed. In an interview …